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Alex the parrot, Elizabeth Bennet and the soul’s code

Posted on May 27, 2009 by steveshann

As I read Maja Wilson’s Rethinking Rubrics and followed the discussion about this book on the English Companion Ning, I kept thinking about a growing divide amongst teachers around the question of what we’re meant to be doing in the … Continue reading →

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Searching for meaning in our English classrooms

Posted on February 28, 2009 by steveshann

Michael Umphrey has recently suggested that we are witnessing a large-scale, slow motion holocaust as students succumb to a sense of meaninglessness. I have a half dozen preoccupations as a teacher–things that I keep thinking about. One of them is … Continue reading →

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